2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series: Europe Finals

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Europe

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World Championship

The StarCraft II World Championship Series is the culmination of more than 30 eSports events run by Blizzard and tournament organizers. The goal of the StarCraft II World Championship Series is to identify a true global champion, as players enter and qualify through open tournaments starting at the national level. It will take place in the Ericsson Globe, in Stockholm.

2012 Battle.net European Championship

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League Information

Organizer:

DreamHack
Blizzard Entertainment

Sponsor:

Stockholm Globe Arenas
Nöjesbladet
SteelSeries

Server:

Europe

Event Type:

Offline

Location:

Sweden

Format:

1v1, Double Elimination

Prize pool:

$60,000

Start Date:

2012-09-15

End Date:

2012-09-16

Links:

Official Website

Winners

Stephano

VortiX
LucifroN	LoWeLy

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

32

11

8

13

Maps

WCS Cloud Kingdom LE • WCS Daybreak LE • WCS Ohana LE • WCS Antiga Shipyard • WCS Entombed Valley • WCS Shakuras Plateau • WCS Tal'Darim Altar LE

[edit] About

Aerial shot of the packed Globe on day 2

Rachel "Seltzer" Quirico^[1] & Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner will host the event. Artosis, Tasteless, Apollo, and Kaelaris will broadcast, while Adebisi acts as the events main observer.

[edit] Format

Double Elimination
All rounds best-of-three.
In the Grand Finals, the player coming from the Lower Bracket has to win two best-of-three series.

[edit] Map Pool

[edit] Prize Pool

$60,000, and six seeds* for the 2012 Battle.net World Championship is spread among the players as seen below:

Place	Prize	ID	Team
1st	$24,000*	Stephano	Evil Geniuses
2nd	$9,000 + Seed	VortiX	Karont3 e-Sports Club
3rd	$3,600 + Seed	LucifroN	Karont3 e-Sports Club
4th	$1,800 + Seed	LoWeLy	FXOpen e-Sports

5th-6th	$1200 + Seed	BabyKnight	FXOpen e-Sports
5th-6th	$1200 + Seed	Grubby	Team Grubby
7th	$1200 + Seed*	Nerchio	Team Acer

8th

$1200

Happy

Team Empire

9th-16th	$900	Click "Show" to see players
9th-12th	$900	SortOf	Western Wolves
9th-12th	$900	Socke	Team ALTERNATE
9th-12th	$900	Ret	Team Liquid
9th-12th	$900	Bly	Team Acer
13th-16th	$900	StarEagle	Team Redbyte Italia
13th-16th	$900	TitaN	RoX
13th-16th	$900	MaNa	mousesports
13th-16th	$900	DeMusliM	Evil Geniuses

17th-32nd	$600	Click "Show" to see players
17th-24th	$600	sLivko	Virtus.pro
17th-24th	$600	JonnyREcco	Team Dignitas
17th-24th	$600	HasuObs	mousesports
17th-24th	$600	White-Ra	Tt eSPORTS
17th-24th	$600	Seiplo	Alien Invasion
17th-24th	$600	DarKFoRcE	Team ALTERNATE
17th-24th	$600	ThorZaIN	Evil Geniuses
17th-24th	$600	Dayshi	Eclypsia
25th-32nd	$600	NightEnD	Fnatic
25th-32nd	$600	KrasS	WinFakt!
25th-32nd	$600	Orly	LowLandLions
25th-32nd	$600	Naama	Fnatic
25th-32nd	$600	Ziktomini	Western Wolves
25th-32nd	$600	Eeel	Sparte Legion
25th-32nd	$600	JeaL	inFerno eSports
25th-32nd	$600	Noticimus	Team GamersLeague

* Because Stephano previously won the French National and thus a direct seed into the World Championship, an extra match at this tournament was played so as to determine the 7th place player, the winner of which receives the 6th seed to the World Championship.

[edit] Qualifiers

Full Qualifier List: 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe Nationals
The participants are seeded from the different National Finals tournaments and one Combined European Continental Final.^[2]^[3]

Country	# of seeds	Representatives
Belgium	1	Orly
Denmark	1	BabyKnight
Finland	1	Naama
France	3	Stephano	Dayshi	Eeel
Germany	4	Socke	HasuObs	DarKFoRcE	KrasS
Italy	2	JeaL		StarEagle
Netherlands	2	Grubby		Ret
Norway	1	Noticimus
Poland	2	Nerchio		MaNa
Russian Federation	3	TitaN	Happy	sLivko
Spain	2	LucifroN		VortiX
Sweden	3	ThorZaIN	SortOf	Seiplo
Ukraine	2	Bly		White-Ra
United Kingdom	3	Ziktomini	DeMusliM	JonnyREcco
Combined Europe	2	LoWeLy		NightEnD

[edit] Participants

Qualified through National Championships
Protoss (11)	Terran (8)	Zerg (13)
JeaL	StarEagle	Nerchio
MaNa	LucifroN	Orly
Grubby	KrasS	Ret
HasuObs	DeMusliM	VortiX
Socke	Dayshi	DarKFoRcE
White-Ra	Happy	Ziktomini
TitaN	ThorZaIN	JonnyREcco
Seiplo	Naama	Stephano
Noticimus		Eeel
BabyKnight		Bly
		sLivko
		SortOf
Qualified through Combined European Nationals
NightEnD		LoWeLy

[edit] Results

Winners Bracket

Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round 4

KrasS	0

Bly	2
		Bly	2

		MaNa	1
MaNa	2

DeMusliM	1
					Bly	1

					VortiX	2
VortiX	2

Noticimus	0
		VortiX	2

		SortOf	1
SortOf	2

Nerchio	1
								VortiX	2

								BabyKnight	1
sLivko	2

Grubby	1
		sLivko	1

		Ret	2
Ret	2

JeaL	0
					Ret	1

					BabyKnight	2
White-Ra	2

Orly	0
		White-Ra	0

		BabyKnight	2
BabyKnight	2

Seiplo	1



Ziktomini	1

DarKFoRcE	2
		DarKFoRcE	0

		LucifroN	2
LucifroN	2

Happy	1
					LucifroN	2

				Socke	0
Socke	2

Eeel	0
		Socke	2

		StarEagle	0
TitaN	0

StarEagle	2
								LucifroN	1

							Stephano	2
Naama	1

Dayshi	2
		Dayshi	0

		Stephano	2
Stephano	2

HasuObs	0
					Stephano	2

					LoWeLy	0
ThorZaIN	2

NightEnD	0
		ThorZaIN	1

		LoWeLy	2
LoWeLy	2

JonnyREcco	1

Losers Bracket

Round 1		Round 2		Round 3		Round 4		Round 5		Round 6

		Dayshi	0
KrasS	1
		DeMusliM	2			Bly	0
DeMusliM	2			DeMusliM	0
						Nerchio	2
				Nerchio	2
		ThorZaIN	0
Noticimus	0									LucifroN^[4]	2
		Nerchio	2					Nerchio	1
Nerchio	2									Grubby	1
								Grubby	2

		DarKFoRcE	0
Grubby	2
		Grubby	2			Ret	1
JeaL	1			Grubby	2
						Grubby	2
				StarEagle	1
		StarEagle	2
Orly	1
		Seiplo	0
Seiplo	2



		sLivko	1
Ziktomini	0
		Happy	2			Socke	0
Happy	2			Happy	2
						Happy	2
				TitaN	0
		White-Ra	1
Eeel	0									BabyKnight^[4]	0
		TitaN	2					Happy	0
TitaN	2									LoWeLy	2
								LoWeLy	2

		MaNa	2
Naama	1
		HasuObs	1			LoWeLy	2
HasuObs	2			MaNa	0
						SortOf	1
				SortOf	2
		SortOf	2
NightEnD	1
		JonnyREcco	0
JonnyREcco	2

Final Bracket


From Winners Bracket
				Grand Final


VortiX	0
				Stephano	1	2
Stephano	2
				VortiX	2	0

		VortiX	2

From Losers Bracket
		LucifroN	0



LucifroN	2

LoWeLy	0

[edit] 7th Place Consolation Match

	Bo3

	Nerchio	2

	Happy	0

[edit] Racial Distribution

Protoss

Terran

Zerg

Random

Round of 32

11

8

13

Round of 16

5

4

7

Round of 8

2

4

Round of 4

1

3

Grand Finals

2

Winner

1

[edit] View Games

[edit] Streams

[edit] English

[edit] Other Languages

[edit] Replays

[edit] Additional Coverage

[edit] TeamLiquid.net

[edit] Live Report

[edit] Write-Ups

[edit] Other

[edit] Gallery

Crowd and Stage on Day 1
Hosts Seltzer and ReDeYe
Casters Tasteless and Artosis
Casters Apollo and Kaelaris
Observer Adebisi
The European Champion - Stephano

[edit] See Also

[edit] External Links

[edit] References

↑ Hellspawnlord (2012-09-13). "@Hellspawnlord". Retrieved 2012-09-15.
↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2012-04-12). "World Championship Series: Europe Nationals".
↑ otacon (2012-04-25). "Combined European National & Qualifiers".
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 DreamHack (2012-09-16). "DreamHack confirmation for Round 6 matchups".

[0] Hellspawnlord (2012-09-13). "@Hellspawnlord". Retrieved 2012-09-15.

[1] Blizzard Entertainment (2012-04-12). "World Championship Series: Europe Nationals".

[2] tacon (2012-04-25). "Combined European National & Qualifiers".

[tweet-3] 4.0 ^4.1 DreamHack (2012-09-16). "DreamHack confirmation for Round 6 matchups".

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